Mabocus Chamberlin, 1951

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Mabocus Chamberlin, 1951

Type-species.

Mabocus granulifer Chamberlin, 1951, by original designation; Angola.

Twenty segments (male, female); body width 0.6 mm. Male head with a central, boletiform, epicranial projection. Paraterga relatively well developed, tergal setae medium-sized, bacilliform to slightly clavate. Male coxae moderately large, gonocoel relatively small; telopodite well exposed, distal part with a single apical branch (ab) subdivided into two on top. Both seminal groove and solenomere (sl) short and simple, the latter spiniform (Figure 1E, F). Poorly described originally ( Chamberlin 1951), properly redescribed from the holotype by Kraus (1958).